Boards

I was listening to the residents - eskimo at 5:30am last night/this morning in a fairly drunken state and I don't think I've ever been so terrified in my life. it scared the living bejeezus outta me, yet I felt compelled to listen to the entire album.

So what music fills YOU/your trousers with bowel-emptying fear for whatever reason?

cover of Nick Cave's 'The Mercy Seat'. Both artists on their own are pretty scary - this combined effort physically gives me goosebumps every time I hear it. It's a narrative of someone in the electric chair for a crime they (possibly) didn't commit. It just builds and builds, and the lyrics are totally horrific ("and I feel my head is melting") until the end when he finally admits that he's petrified of dying. I feel scared just thinking about it.

often totally terrify me, especially when I listen on headphones. Not the stuff with the daft vocals off the last album so much as the instrumentals from earlier records. The guitars sound like they are gonna crush the life from you - eg the last minutes of Defeating Earth's Gravity from the demos album. Wow. Also William Basinski scares me because his music is so beautiful.